Dr. Mark and Dr. Chip's Healthy Blogs

  Hi Natural Health Family. Imagine you are doing well enjoying the sunshine as it is coming in. As the year keeps moving on we will face various situations, ones that make us feel more at ease and others that throw us for a loop. With all that’s happened in the past couple years, we can now see how resilient we can be. Although the challenges are not over, learning what we can do to weather any storm is important for our own well-being. One key characteristic of our health is our breath and how it can help us become more adaptable. Have you ever wondered about your breathing? Maybe what maintains a steady rhythm of breathing without your thinking of it. Or how much air goes in and out of your lungs in a day? Or why when I think of breathing do I start to notice that I have to control it? The average person roughly inhales and exhales an amazing 2,900 gallons of air. Your body is an amazing (for lack of better words) machine with different parts. The diaphragm which is a muscle i...

  Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-                 What a great weekend! So nice to watch the grass growing and greening up and now the trees are forming their leaves and were getting back to green rather than brown. It’s a great time to watch nature come back to life and we need to take the hint. At Natural Health, we’re seeing lots of patience who have been stressed out these last couple years and not knowing how to help themselves to get healthy, and that’s what we do. We have seen mainstream media and mainstream medicine work together to promote this covid virus narrative and then the jab as the “cure”. That’s not working out very well. We are here at Natural Health to help patients strengthen their immune system and not be stuck in this disease management system they call “healthcare”. I hope that you’re able to find your favorite alternative news media, they are becoming quite a few now, and ...

  STORY AT-A-GLANCE People with Type 2 diabetes who use omega-3 supplements have a lower incidence of hospitalization for heart failure. Despite advances in drug therapy, the prognosis for heart failure continues to remain poor with a mortality of 60% over one year in people with severe disease Factors that can lead to heart failure include high blood pressure, coronary artery disease and atherosclerosis, all of which place additional stress on the heart leading to dysfunction and enlargement Multiple studies have demonstrated that vitamin D also plays a significant role in heart health as it has an impact on mineral metabolism, myocardial function and inflammation. Deficiency is highly prevalent in people with heart failure and is a prognostic indicator of poor outcomes Two other nutrients essential to heart health are sulfur and magnesium. Sulfur is a key component of glutathione, a powerful antioxidant that is crucial to heart health. Magnesium plays a vital role in controlling ...

  Hi Natural Health Family! Happy Easter to all. It appears that Spring is making a slow and steady showing. We have said before but this time of the year is about change and starting new. Many of us will start to do activities we have not been able to do in a long while. One aspect that is important for all people is the aspect of recreation or what some would call, play.  When we break down the word recreation we can see that it is the process of re-creating. So recreation can mean simply that we are doing or making something different. When we play sports we go from the busy day to day life to placing all our focus and energy on the sport. The sport itself does not help in a productive way as we may see it. It does, however, allow us to move in different ways and frees ourselves from having to figure out what we need to do next or what problem is needed to fix. It doesn’t just have to be sports. It can also be any form of activity in which we are creating something new. T...

  Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation                 I hope that you had a Happy and Blessed Easter and were able to enjoy the day despite the inclement weather. As old as I am, I can remember several Easters that we had snow on so it’s not all that uncommon but it is something we don’t like. We had an indoor Easter egg hunt for the grandkids and that was fun to watch. I also hope that you ate well and I’m feeling good this week. I’m sure those. That ate a bunch of chocolate Easter eggs and other junk, probably aren’t You’ve got to stay in good shape so you can start mowing grass and planting those gardens-ha.                 The health shop that we had this week was looking at Leaky Gut. Almost everyone that comes into the office with any type of allergy symptom or skin problems or whatever, has Leaky Gut. This condition is ...

  STORY AT-A-GLANCE Implantable microchips are marketed as the ultimate in convenience, but the goal is to create the Internet of Bodies (IoB), described by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as an ecosystem of “an unprecedented number of sensors,” including emotional sensors, “attached to, implanted within, or ingested into human bodies to monitor, analyze and even modify human bodies and behavior” Sweden is one of the earliest adopters of implantable microchips. The chip is implanted just beneath the skin on the hand, and operates using either near-field communication (NFC) — the same technology used in smartphones — or radio-frequency identification (RFID), which is used in contactless credit cards Implanted payment chips are an extension of the internet of things; they’re a way of connecting and exchanging data, and the benefits must be weighed against the potential risks Countries around the world are now working on a system for a central bank digital currency (CBDC), a fiat curre...

  Hello all you great members of the Natural Health Family. I imagine you were able to soak up some sun during your weekend. As spring is upon us we start to see new life. Spring time is the end of old and the start of new beginnings. Many times we can get caught into thinking that it’s just the way things are or that old dogs can’t learn new tricks. Well sometimes it takes us to unlearn so that we can relearn. As with nature and the changing of seasons, it takes a change in our understanding to allow for a healthier life.  Many times people think of change as a negative thing. Although it is good to have a structure and routine to stay organized, change is what helps us to grow. As with many aspects of life including understanding, physical movement, diet, business, etc. change is needed for us to grow and adapt to the world we live in. Just like a caterpillar appears to pass away when in the process of changing into a butterfly, it is only a step into new life. Now one thi...

Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-                 I hope that you enjoyed your weekend. It was a mixed bag of cold and warm and wind and rain and it just seems like it can’t make up its mind which way to go. But that is early spring in the Midwest and eventually we will be complaining that it’s too hot. We’re trying to get all the work done in our house that we can before the good weather gets here so we can go outside and work in the yard. It’s nice to see the grass grinning up but we’ve got a lot of weeds to take care of-ha. I hope that you can get outside soon and soak up the sunshine and activate that good vitamin D to help you be healthy.                 Speaking of good sunshine, Sun Health is the topic of our health shop this week. Most folks don’t realize that sunshine helps to activate vitamin D so that it works in the body...

  STORY AT-A-GLANCE According to statistics by the American Heart Association (AHA), 48% of American adults have cardiovascular disease (CVD) — a classification that includes high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, heart failure and stroke The rise in CVD prevalence is primarily driven by updated blood pressure guidelines, which identify a blood pressure over 130/80 mm Hg as hypertensive; previously the cutoff was 140/90 mm Hg Deaths from CVD are again on the rise, after decades of being on the decline. In 2016, there were 840,678 recorded deaths from CVD in the U.S., up from 836,546 the year before High cholesterol is not a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Three factors that have a far greater influence on your CVD risk are iron overload, insulin resistance and chronic inflammation Two tests that are important for assessing your CVD risk are the serum ferritin and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) tests This article was previously published February 12, 2019, and has...